Hello crafty friends. I’ve swapped back to a current Stampin’ Up! set that I haven’t had out so far this year, the ‘framed florets’. I thought of it as soon as I saw the inspiration picture at TGIF challenges – I decided to use the layout in the picture but added in the shades from… Read More framed florets birthday
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is another outing for the ‘sweet citrus’ set from Stampin’ Up!, which is rapidly becoming one of my favourites. I’ve used it once again for the sketch at Atlantic Hearts, this time taking the colours from Global Design Project. I’m also sharing it at Can You Handle The Pressure, where… Read More have a zesty birthday
hello crafty friends. Here we are at the start of another week and I’ve got a last minute submission to a couple of challenge blogs, using the ‘beautifully happy’ stamp set that’s in the current Stampin’ Up! Saleabration. I’ve take the colours from Color Throwdown, the layout from Freshly Made Sketches and a scattering of… Read More beautifully happy hearts
Happy New Year, crafty friends! We’re starting 2023 with a new challenge over at Love to Craft and as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. A friend asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter-in-law and I built the design around Clarity’s ‘happy birthday floral frame’ die. I started by cutting the die… Read More floral frame birthday
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 4 of my 12 Days of Clarity and today it’s the ‘lace round’ stamp from April’s Craft Club. It’s such a lovely intricate design that it had to take centre stage on the card. But first the background – I cut one of Clarity’s ‘doodle frame-it aperture’ dies into… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – lace round
Hello there and welcome to day 3 of my 12 Days of Clarity, working back through their 2022 Craft Club stamps. March brought us the floral panel stamp, but I’ve only used part of it on today’s card. I don’t often think of partial stamping, but I did a recent online class with Phillipa Lewis… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – floral panel
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m a bit late posting today as I’ve been getting all the last few things finished for Christmas, but then remembered that I still hadn’t made a card for my father-in-law’s birthday – which is tomorrow! He’ll be 97 and I thought he might like a new jumper courtesy of… Read More birthday jumper
Hello crafty friends. I’ve stepped away from Christmas cards today and and sharing a birthday card with us, using the ‘funky happy birthday’ set from Clarity – I really like these doodled letters. I decided to keep it simple and let the design speak for itself, using the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches I… Read More doodle birthday
Hello there crafty friends. We’ve got a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge today, and Melanie has chosen Quilt as the theme for Q. I got this ‘quilting’ die from A Pocket Full of Happiness a while ago, so it was the obvious choice for today’s card. I’ve used the colours from Global Design Project… Read More Q for Quilt at Alphabet Challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve got the new ‘framed florets’ set from Stampin’ Up! out for another play today, this time using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts and the palette from Colour INKspiration I started with a 5×7 card blank and attached a strip of the ‘hues of happiness’ paper across the centre. I… Read More birthday florets
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